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The main entrance to the Fitzwilliam Museum, facing Trumpington Sreet.
The main entrance to the Fitzwilliam Museum, facing Trumpington Sreet.

The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge and is located on Trumpington Street, Cambridge, England. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the The city of Cambridge (ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland It receives around 300,000 visitors annually. [1]

The museum was founded in 1816 with the bequest of the library and art collection of the 7th Viscount FitzWilliam. Year 1816 ( MDCCCXVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Richard FitzWilliam 7th Viscount FitzWilliam (1 August 1745 – 4 February 1816 was an Irish Viscount in the FitzWilliam family who was a Benefactor The bequest also included £100,000 "to cause to be erected a good substantial museum repository". The "Founder's Building" itself was designed by George Basevi, completed by C. R. Cockerell and opened in 1848; the entrance hall is by Edward Middleton Barry and was completed in 1875. Elias George Basevi FRS ( 1 April, 1794 &ndash 16 October, 1845) was an English Architect. Charles Robert Cockerell (1788–1863 was an English Architect, Archaeologist, and Writer. Year 1848 ( MDCCCXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Edward Middleton Barry ( 7 June 1830 &ndash 27 January 1880) was an English Architect of the 19th century Year 1875 ( MDCCCLXXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common

The Egyptian Galleries at the Fitzwilliam Museum re-opened in 2006 after a two-year, £1. 5 million programme of refurbishment, conservation and research.

Saint Geminianus from pentaptych by Simone Martini (c.1284-1344).
Saint Geminianus from pentaptych by Simone Martini (c. Simone Martini (c 1284 – c 1344 was an Italian painter born in Siena. 1284-1344).

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Collection

The museum has five departments: Antiquities; Applied Arts; Coins and Medals; Manuscripts and Printed Books; and Paintings, Drawings and Prints.

Together these cover antiquities from Ancient Egypt, Sudan, Greece and Rome, Roman and Romano-Egyptian Art, Western Asiatic displays and a new gallery of Cypriot Art;

The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown.
The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown. Ford Madox Brown ( April 16, 1821 &ndash October 6, 1893) was an English painter of moral and historical subjects notable for his

applied arts, including English and European pottery and glass, furniture, clocks, fans, armour, Chinese, Japanese and Korean art, rugs and samplers; coins and medals; illuminated, literary and music manuscripts and rare printed books; paintings, including masterpieces by Simone Martini, Domenico Veneziano, Titian, Veronese, Rubens, Van Dyck, Frans Hals, Canaletto, Hogarth, Gainsborough, Constable, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne and Picasso and a fine collection of 20th century art; miniatures, drawings, watercolours and prints. Simone Martini (c 1284 – c 1344 was an Italian painter born in Siena. Domenico Veneziano (c 1410 &ndash 1461 was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance, active mostly in Perugia and Tuscany. Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c 1485 &ndash August 27 1576 better known as Titian, was the leading painter of the 16th-century Venetian Paolo Veronese (1528 – April 19 1588 was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana Frans Hals (c 1580– August 26, 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter especially famous for portraiture. This is about the first and better known artist "Canaletto" for his nephew and pupil sometimes also called "Canaletto" especially in Poland and Germany see William Hogarth (10 November 1697 &ndash 26 October 1764 was a major English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 &ndash died 2 August 1788 was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. John Constable ( 11 June 1776 &ndash 31 March 1837 Claude Monet ( French klod mɔnɛ also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 &ndash 5 December 1926 was a founder Pierre-Auguste Renoir ( February 25, 1841 &ndash December 3, 1919) was a French Artist who was a leading painter in Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso (October 25 1881 &ndash April 8 1973

Many items in the museum are on loan from colleges of the University, for example an important group of impressionist paintings owned by King's College, which includes Cézanne's 'The Abduction' and a study for 'Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte' by Seurat. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the King's College Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - 1884 ( Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte - 1884) is Georges Seurat 's most famous Georges-Pierre Seurat ( December 2, 1859  &ndash March 29, 1891) was a French painter and Draftsman.

The Museum's collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings includes a version of Ford Madox Brown's The Last of England, voted 8th greatest painting in Britain in 2005's Radio 4 poll, the Greatest Painting in Britain Vote. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters Poets, and critics founded in 1848 by Ford Madox Brown ( April 16, 1821 &ndash October 6, 1893) was an English painter of moral and historical subjects notable for his The Last of England is an 1855 oil-on-panel painting by Ford Madox Brown depicting two emigrees leaving England to start a new life abroad The Greatest Painting in Britain Vote was a survey made by BBC Radio 4 's ''Today'' programme in Summer 2005 with the aim of discovering the best-loved

There is also the largest collection of 16th century Elizabethan virginal manuscript music written by some of the most notable composers of the time. The virginals (the plural form does not necessarily denote more than one instrument or virginal is a Keyboard instrument of the Harpsichord family Composers such as William Byrd, Doctor John Bull, Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Tallis. William Byrd (c 1540 &ndash 4 July 1623 was an English Composer of the Renaissance. John Bull (1562 or 1563&ndash15 March 1628 was an English composer musician and organ builder Orlando Gibbons ( baptised 25 December 1583 &ndash 5 June 1625) was an English Composer and Organist Thomas Tallis (c 1505 &ndash 23 November 1585) was an English Composer.

Collection Highlights

Paintings

Anglo-American

Dutch School

English School

Flemish School

French School

German School

Italian School

Trivia

Directors

A Henry Moore sculpture outside the museum
A Henry Moore sculpture outside the museum

External links

Coordinates: 52°12′01″N 0°07′10″E / 52.20028, 0.11944

Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986 was an English artist and sculptor. The Kimbell Art Museum is situated in the Cultural District of Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Duncan Robinson, CBE, FRSA, DL, is the Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (1867-1962 was a British museum Curator, collector and well-connected figure in the literary world Charles Waldstein, later Sir Charles Walston KBE ( March 30, 1856 – 1927 was an Anglo - American archaeologist London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system.
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